It is frustrating (and terrifying) to devote so much of our effort to preventing fossil fuel expansion rather than actually reducing emissions, but springtime brings some good news from the northwest coast.

Before going to Mayflower, I had never seen tar sands bitumen in person. I had never smelled it, nor had I experienced how it starts to sicken you the minute you get near it: headaches, burning throat, fatigue, gut-aches, vomiting and diarrhea.

On the heels of ExxonMobil's really tough couple of weeks sopping up that grievous tar sands oil spill in suburban Arkansas, America's most profitable corporation is now trying to stop a different leak: a novel attack-ad campaign.

A new report shows the Keystone XL pipeline will contribute at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars, or 51 coal-fired power plants.

The company's legal team is working overtime to keep the company’s Arctic work secret from advocacy groups like Greenpeace -- most recently, by appealing to California's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to curb protester rights.

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The 37-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is a graduate of Harvard, a Rhodes Scholar, a former Naval Intelligence officer and the first openly gay person to seek a major party’s presidential nomination.

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"POTUS" is an acronym political journalists frequently use when talking about the President of the United States. However, "POTUS" seems a woefully soft and inadequate word to describe the current occupant of the Oval Office.